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The submission's title is "Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux?". I knew the answer to that very specific question, so I offered it :) As to whet
by cryptonector 8y ago
The submission's title is "Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux?". I knew the answer to that very specific question, so I offered it :)
As to whether we need to evolve this functionality today, I would hazard that the answer is "no". I did sketch out how it would be done, if we really need it and people want to implement it. But my guess is that there are too few people with the desire and funding to work on this problem. Reading TFA today is the first time I've ever heard of anyone wanting key up events in the tty -a tty that has some 45+ years of history- so I'm a bit skeptical that this will somehow become such a blindingly obviously highly desirable feature _now_ that it might get done.
- Dylan16807 8y ago> The submission's title is "Why Is It So Hard to Detect Keyup Event on Linux?". I knew the answer to that very specific question, so I offered it :) You didn't reply to the top level article, you replied to a specific comment, which was asking a different question. And "not enough desire to make the change now that we're so entrenched" is still different from "does it deserve to know, if we were doing it right". And I would say the latter is true. (Still ignoring "need" because "need" is really vague.)
- cryptonector 8y agoFair enough. That post said: > Why? What if I'm playing a game on that TTY? So my answer was still on point.
- Dylan16807 8y agoThe predicate to that specific "Why" was "doesn't need or deserve to know", not "is so hard to detect on linux".